Unless you have been hiking solo across Antarctica, you are aware that the rest of the world is caught in the grip of a worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. As of June 25, 2020, 9.4 million people across the world have been confirmed to have the disease. As of June 24, 2020, 477,271 of those people have died from the disease. Both numbers are still rising unabated. Continue reading
Back in 2005, Irena M. Conboy and colleagues published a paper in Nature detailing a heterochronic parabiosis experiment, that investigated aging in mice. They were investigating whether the blood coursing through the arteries and veins of old animals differed from the blood that kept young animals alive. To perform the experiment, they surgically connected the circulatory system of an old mouse to that of a young one. This caused the blood sustaining the old mouse to be 50% old and 50% young. Continue reading
Disruption is a central component of the Anticipatory Organization Model, focusing closely on how Anticipatory Organizations and individuals can look at disruption and see enormous opportunities.
The untimely situation we currently face with COVID-19 is no exception; not only has every industry been touched by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown, every country has. There is literally no safe haven from this disease, and businesses both large and small have found themselves in a predicament unlike ever before. Continue reading
Yesterday, as I do every day, I collected our mail from our mailbox at the end of our driveway. I didn’t look at it. I just carried it into the house so my wife could wipe it off with a sanitizing wipe. Thanks, COVID-19 for providing some unneeded hassle! Anyway, my wife, Joyce, read the envelopes and discovered that some were addressed to people she didn’t know. Continue reading
Norway, Finland, and Denmark all instituted lockdown policies.
Sweden did not. It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words.
I’ll just show one picture and leave it at that. Continue reading